Idols...kind of

I've been reading a TON this summer.

I'm not sure how much I've actually mentioned it on my blog, but I LOVE to read. I've been averaging one book a week...which is a lot for me these days, considering work and everything.

I just finished the first book in the Hunger Games series. The plot of the story is kind of gory and brutal but I couldn't stop reading it. It was very well written.

Besides that, I'm feeling the need to blog right now about something that's leaning on the personal side.

I checked out the "She Seeks" website tonight again on a whim (I really don't check it too often) and it was about friendships and how they can "be imbalanced."

It talked about how, often, women make their friendships too important or not important enough.

Something God has really been gently walking me through all summer (and early spring) is that I tend to form an "unhealthy attachment" to some of my friends.

By unhealthy I mean that I can very easily place my friends as a "god" in my life, that is above everything else.

I realllyy highly value my friendships and it's a big weakness on my part. I let my trust fall more on people sometimes than on God. He needs to be at the highest place in my life and when He's not the highest...my "thing" that takes the place reserved for Him is friends.

Everyone has something that they struggle to not idolize (I mean, they do right..? right?) I'm realizing that friends/relationships are mine. I really truly struggle with it and I'm praying that God will help me to create a healthy balance.

People can't be trusted above all. Only God can. When I put a person in such a "high" place, they will and inevitably DO let me down in some type of way, because they're human. The person YOU love the most in the life will let you down.

God will never, ever, ever, EVER let me down or fail me. He will never change or leave me.

What do you struggle for as an idol in your life?

Whatever it is, pray that God will ultimately be at the highest point. When you can truly grasp and believe that God is everything you need there is really nothing else that compares!